Your professor is reviewing the history of psychology for a class on "The Beginning of Psychology." How will the professor describe Inez Beverly Prosser?
a) She was the first woman to receive a PhD in psychology.
b) She was the first woman to study the genetics of schizophrenia.
c) She was one of the first African Americans to earn a PhD in psychology.
d) She was the first woman to be elected president of the American Psychological Association.
ANS: c
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a. the decay theory of forgetting. b. the interference theory of forgetting. c. the repression theory of forgetting. d. the neurochemical theory of forgetting.
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